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graycat

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Registered: 2014-12-12

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New ATI omgea driver headeache

How do you install the driver?

The usual method I use:

yaourt catalyst-test
sudo pacman -S acpid
sudo systemctl enable atieventsd
sudo systemctl start atieventsd
sudo systemctl enable catalyst-hook
sudo systemctl start catalyst-hook
sudo aticonfig --initial

edit grub.cfg with: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nomodeset"
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

It has caused me to get a completely broken system, all I get at boot is a flashing cursor after it mounts my drives with no rescue prompt.

My card is a R9 270x by the way.

clfarron4

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2013-06-28

Posts: 2,175

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Re: New ATI omgea driver headeache

Have you tried downgrading the version of Catalyst to confirm it's the new Omega driver?

How do you install the driver?

The usual method I use:

yaourt catalyst-test
sudo pacman -S acpid
sudo systemctl enable atieventsd
sudo systemctl start atieventsd
sudo systemctl enable catalyst-hook
sudo systemctl start catalyst-hook
sudo aticonfig --initial

edit grub.cfg with:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nomodeset"
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

On first glance, that looks like it should work. If I were to use yaourt for building packages, I'd typically issue yaourt -S [package] just to make sure that it is build against the most recent libraries.

It has caused me to get a completely broken system, all I get at boot is a flashing cursor after it mounts my drives with no rescue prompt

Is it possible for you to boot via LiveCD and retrieve some logs, probably X.org and journal logs (the latter you'll need to chroot in to access). That'll hopefully tell us what's going on.

PS: [ code ] tags for code please (quote my post and you'll see what I mean).

Last edited by clfarron4 (2014-12-12 18:34:01)

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Xabre

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 757

Re: New ATI omgea driver headeache

catalyst-test is still the old driver, catalyst-total contains the new omega driver. And just so you don't feel alone: am having headaches with it myself. Stupid thing works on Ubuntu, but is trying to play smart here on Arch.

clfarron4

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2013-06-28

Posts: 2,175

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Re: New ATI omgea driver headeache

catalyst-test is still the old driver, catalyst-total contains the new omega driver. And just so you don't feel alone: am having headaches with it myself. Stupid thing works on Ubuntu, but is trying to play smart here on Arch.

Are you sure about that? It looks like catalyst-test has the same version as catalyst-total.

Last edited by clfarron4 (2014-12-12 19:16:29)

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Claire is fine.
Problems? I have dysgraphia, so clear and concise please.
My public GPG key for package signing
My x86_64 package repository

Xabre

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 757

Re: New ATI omgea driver headeache

Ugh, apologies, he must have updated it since yesterday. Disregard.

fcmugen

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From: U.S

Registered: 2013-02-01

Posts: 2

Re: New ATI omgea driver headeache

Has anyone had any luck with the new driver?